Virtualmin default mailbox setting for mail() in php?

Question

PHP

The server is running LAMP and Virtualmin. How to set up a box from which mail will be sent by the mail () function in php on a virtual server. If there is such a thing in Virtualmin, then it is desirable how to do it using it, if not, then tell me in the direction of which configs or directions to dig.

Answer 1

I'm afraid there is no connection at all between the "box" for mail () and Virtualmin. When mail() is called, php stupidly calls /usr/sbin/sendmail and passes the headers and message to it. The most sendmail knows is the UID of the process that called it (so the address is @).
Another thing is that you can specify the return address and the From: field of the outgoing message using headers, and this is done very simply by calling mail() approximately like this: Or you can also specify additional parameters for sendmail using the fifth parameter mail(): but this is not such a flexible solution for my taste. In Google, there are tips to change the sendmail_from parameter in php.ini, but they are wrong - this parameter only works in Windows.
mail('Кому <[email protected]>', 'Тема', 'Сообщение', "From: От кого <[email protected]>\nReply-To: Кому ответить <[email protected]>");

mail('[email protected]', 'the subject', 'the message', null, '[email protected]');


Answer 2

As dmiceman wrote, when sending mail with a script, there is no sender, but you can specify the FROM field.
To do this, specify in the php.ini file:
sendmail_path = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -i -f [email protected]"
Replacing [email protected] with the desired address.